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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Trustees of Columbia College 5 

Historical Sketch of Columbia College 7 

STATUTES OF THJS COZZEGE. 

CHAPTER I. 

Of the President 17 

CHAPTER II. 

Of the Board of the College 18 

CHAPTER III. 
Of the Course of Study 20 

CHAPTER IV. 
Of Admission. .22 

CHAPTER V. 
Of Attendance 23 

CHAPTER VI. 
Of Discipline 23 

CHAPTER VII. 

Of the Proficiency; of Students 24 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Of Academic Honors 26 

CHAPTER IX. 

Of Commencements 27 

CHAPTER X. 
Of Vacations 29 

CHAPTER X[. 
Of the Library 29 

CHAPTER XII. 

Of Free Scholarships , 31 

CHAPTER XIII. 
Of Foundations 31 



IV CONTENTS. 

STATUTE FOR OMGANIZING TBE SCHOOL OF MINES. 

CHAPTER I. PAGE 
Of the President 33 

CHAPTER 11. 
Of the Faculty of the School of Mines 33 

CHAPTER III. 
Of Admission 34 

CHAPTER IV. 
Of the Course of Study 35 

CHAPTER V. 
Of the Proficiency of Students and of Grraduation. 37 

CHAPTER VI. 
Of Discipline . . 37 

CHAPTER VII. 
Of Fees for Tuition 38 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Of Commencement and Degrees 38 

STATUTJE FOn ORGANIZING TELE SCHOOL OF LAW. 

CHAPTER I. 
Of the President 39 

CHAPTER IL 
Of the Warden 39 

CHAPTER III. 
Of the Faculty 40 

CHAPTER IV. 
Of Admissions 41 

CHAPTER V. 
Of the Course of Study 43 

CHAPTER VI. 
Of Degrees 42 

RESOLUTIONS 

Providing FOR A ScHooii OF Medicine 44 

Providing for a School of Political Science 45 



TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 



NAMKS. RESIDENCES. 

HAMILTON FISH, LL.D., Chairman of the Board, 251 East 17th Street. 

WILLIAM BETTS, LL.D 122 East 30th Street. 

GOUVERNEUR M. OGDEN, Treasurer, 5 Church, h. 9 West 10th Street. 

HORATIO POTTER, S.T.D., LL.D., D.C.L 38 East 22d Street. 

LEWIS M. RUTHERFURD 175 Second Avenue. 

WILLIAM C. SCHERMERHORN 49 West 23d Street. 

MORGAN DIX, S.T D 27 West 25th Street. 

FREDERICK A. P. BARNARD, S.T.D., LL.D., L.H.D College Green. 

SAMUEL BLATCHFORD, LL.D 12 West 22d Street. 

STEPHEN P. NASH 11 West 19th Street. 

JOSEPH W. HARPER, Jr 562 Fifth Avenue. 

CORNELIUS R. AGNEW, M.D 266 Madison Avenue. 

A. ERNEST VANDERPOEL 114 East 16th Street. 

CHARLES A. SILLIMAN 258 West 21st Street. 

FREDERICK A. SCHERMERHORN 61 University Place. 

GERARD BEEKMAN, Clerk, 149 Broadway h. 5 East 34th Street. 

ABRAM N. LITTLE JOHN, S.T.D 170 Remsen Street, Brooklyn. 

JOHN J. TOWNSEND 131 Fifth Avenue. 

EDWARD MITCHELL 45 West 55th Street. 

W. BAYARD CUTTING 18 West 57th Street. 

TALBOT W. CHAMBERS, S.T.D 70 West 36th Street. 

SETH LOW 31 Burling Slip. 

GEORGE L. RIVES 15 East 29th Street. 



HISTORICAL SKETCHi 



COLUMBIA COLLEGE 



The establishment of a college in the city of New York was 
many years in agitation before the design was carried into 
effect. At length, under an act of Assembly passed in Decem- 
ber, 1746, and other similar acts which followed, moneys were 
raised by public lottery " for the encouragement of learning and 
towards the founding a collgc" within the colony. These 
moneys were, in November, 1751, vested in trustees ; of whom, 
ten in number, seven were members of the Church of England, 
and some of these seven were also vestrymen of Trinity Church. 

These circumstances, together with the liberal grant of land 
to the college hj Trinity Church, excited apprehensions of a 
design to introduce a church-establishment within the province, 
and caused violent opposition to the plan, as soon as it became 
known, of obtaining a royil charter for the college. 

This opposition, however, being at last in a great measure sur- 
mounted, the trustees, in November, 1753, invited Dr. Samuel 
Johnson, of Connecticut, to be Presiaent of the intended college. 
Dr. Johnson consequently removed to New York in the month of 
April following, and in July, 1754, commenced the instruction of 
a class of students in a room of the school-house belonging to 
Trinity Church; but he would not absolutely accept of the Presi- 
dency until after the passing of the charter. This took place on 
the 31st of October in the same year, 1754 ; from which period 
the existence of the college is properly to be dated. The gov- 
ernors of the college, named in the charter, are the archbishop 



8 HISTORICAL SKETCH OP COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

of Canterbury, and the first Lord commissioner for trade and 
plantations, both empowered to act by proxies ; the lieutenant- 
governor of the province, and several other public officers ; to- 
gether with the rector of Trinity Church, the senior minister of 
the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, the ministers of the 
German Luthern Church, of the French Church, of the Presby- 
terian Congregation, and the president of the college, all ex 
officio, and twenty-four of the principal gentlemen of the city. 
The college was to be known by the name of King's College. 
Previously to the passing of the chnrter, a parcel of ground to 
the westward of Broadway, bounded by Barclay, Church, and 
Murray streets, and by the Hudson River, had been destined 
by the vestry of Trinity Church as a site for the college edifice ; 
and, accordingly, after the charter was granted, a grant of the 
land Mas made on the 13th of May, 1755. On a portion of this 
plot, at the foot of Upper Robinson street, as it was at first 
called, but afterwards Park Place, the college was subsequently 
built, and there stood for one hundred and three year.<, until its 
removal to another site, in 1857, occasioned by the demands of 
the business of the city. The part of the land thus granted bj^ 
Trinity Church, not occupied for college purposes, was leased, 
and became a very valuable endowment to the college. 

The sources whence the funds of the institution were derived, 
besides the proceeds of the lotteries above mentioned, were the 
voluntary contributions of private individuals in this country, 
and sums obtained by agents, who were subsequently sent to 
England and France. In May, 1760, the college buildings began 
to be occupied. In March, 1763, Dr. Johnson resigned his office 
of president, and the Rev. Dr. Myles Cooper, of Oxford, who 
had previously been appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy, 
and assistant to the president, was elected in his place. In 1767 
a grant of land was obtained, under the government of Sir Henry 
Moore, of twenty-four thousand acres, situated in the northern 
parts of the province of New York ; but by the terms of the 
treaty which the State of New York concluded with Vermont 
upon its erection into a separate State, this, among other grants 
of land lying within its limits, was annulled, and the college 
consequently lost a tract of great value, inasmuch as it consti- 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 9 

tuted the county town of the county in which it was situ- 
ated. 

In August, of the year 1767, a medical school was established 
in the college. 

The following account of the institution, supposed to he writ- 
ten by Dr. Cooper, shows its condition previously to the war of 
the Revolution : 

" Since the passing of the charter, the institution hath received 
great emolument by grants from hi'^ most .gracious majesty 
King George the Third, and b}' liberal contributions from many 
of the nobility and gentry in the parent country ; from the so- 
ciety for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, and 
from several public-spirited gentlemen in America and elsewliere. 
By means of these and other benefactions the governors of the 
college have been enabled to extend their plan of education 
almost as diffusely as any college in Europe ; herein being 
taught by proper masters and professors, who are chosen by the 
governors and president. Divinity, Natural Law, Physic, Logic, 
Ethics, Metaphysics, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Astron- 
omy, Geography, History, Chronology, Rhetoric, Hebrew, Greek, 
Latin, Modern Languages, the Belles-Lettres, and whatever else 
of literature may tend to accomplish the pupils as scholars and 
gentlemen. 

" To the college is also annexed a grammar school for the 
due preparation of those who propose to complete their educa- 
tion with the arts and sciences. 

" All students but those in medicine are obliged to lodge and 
diet in the college, unless they are particularly exempted by the 
governor or president ; and the edifice is surrounded by a high 
fence, which also encloses a large court and garden, and a porter 
constantly attends at the front gate, which is closed at ten 
o'clock each evening in summer, and nine in winter; after which 
hours, the names of all that come in are delivered weekly to the 
president. 

" The college is situated on a dry gravelly soil, about one 
hundred and fifty yards from the bank of the Hudson River, 
which it overlooks ; commanding, from the eminence on which 
it stands, a most extensive and beautiful prospect of the oppo- 
site shore and country of New Jersey, the city and island of 



10 HISTORICAL. SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

New York, Long Island, Staten Island, New York Bay and its 
islands, the Narrows forming the mouth of the harbor, etc., 
etc.; and being totally nnencumbered by any adjacent buildings, 
and admitting the purest circulation of air from the river, and 
every other quarter, has the benefit of as agreeable and healthy 
a situation as can p(jssibly be conceived. 

" Visitations by the governors are quarterly ; at which times 
premiums of books, silver medals, etc., are adjudged to the most 
deserving. 

" This seminary hath already produced a number of gentle- 
men, who do great honor to their professions, the place of their 
education, and themselves, in divinity, law, medicine, etc., etc., 
in this and various other colonies, both on the American conti- 
nent and West India Islands ; and the college is annually in- 
creasing as well in students as reputation." 

In consequence of the dispute between this and the parent 
country. Dr. Cooper returned to England, and the Rev. Benja- 
min Moore was appomted prceses pro tempore during the absence 
of Dr. Cooper, who, however, did not return. 

On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War the business 
of the college was almost entirely broken up, and it was not 
until after the return of peace that its affairs were again regu- 
larly attended to. 

In May, 1784, the college, upon its own application, was 
erected into a university, and its corporal title changed from 
King's College to that of Regents of the University. New 
professors were appointed and a medical department was es- 
tablished. 

The college continued under that government until April, I7y7, 
when, finding the attempt to establish a university unsuccessful, 
it was I'cstored to its original position under the present name of 
Columbia College. 

The original charter, with necessary alterations, was con- 
firmed, and the college j)laced under twenty-nine trustees, who 
were to exercise their functions until their number should be 
reduced by death, resignation, or removal from the State, to 
twenty-four, after which all vacancies in their Board were to be 
filled by their own choice. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COI-LBGB. 11 

At the same time a new body was created, called by the same 
name, " The Regents of the University," under which all the 
seminaries of learning mentioned in the act creating it were 
placed by the legislature. This body still exists under its ori- 
ginal name. 

In May, 1787, Dr. Wm. Samuel Johnson, son of the first presi- 
dent, was elected president of Columbia College. During the 
previous vacancy of the presidential chair, the professors had 
presided in turn ; and certificates were given to graduates, in 
place of regular diplomas. 

In the beginning of the year 1792, the medical school was 
placed upon a more respectable and efficient footing than 
before. 

Dr. Johnson resigned the office of president in July, 1800, 
and was succeeded the year following by the Rev. Dr. Wharton, 
who resigned his office at the end of about seven months. 

Bishop Moore succeeded Dr. Wharton as president. His ec- 
clesiastical duties were such, that he was not expected to take 
an active part in the business of the college except on particular 
occasions. The chief management of its concerns devolved 
upon its professors. 

In 1809, the requisites for entrance into college, to take effect 
the following year, were very much raised, and a new course of 
study and system of discipline were established. 
« A new amended charter was obtained from the legislature in 
1810; by which the power of the college to lease its real estate 
for twenty-one years was extended to sixty-three years. 

Bishop Moore resigned his office as president in May, 1811, in 
order to make room for some person who might devote his whole 
time and attention to the college ; and in June following, a new 
office, styled that of provost, was created. The 2^'^ovost was to 
supply the place of the president in his absence, and was to con- 
duct the classical studies of the senior class. Shortly after this 
new arrangement, the Rev. William Harris was elected presi- 
dent, and the Rev. John M. Mason, provost. 

In consequence of the establishment of the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons in New York, the Medical School of Colum- 
bia College was, in November, 1813, discontinued. 



12 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

The provost resigned bis office in 1816; since winch time 
the college has been under the sole superintendence of a presi- 
dent. 

In 1814, a grant was made to the college by the legislatui-e of 
a tract of land on Manhattan Island, of about twenty acres, 
which had been occupied as a botanic garden by the late Dr. 
Hosack, and had been purchased of him by the State. The 
grant was accompanied by the condition that the college should 
be removed to the tract so granted within twelve years. In 1819 
this condition was repealed. At that time the lands were valued 
at two hundred and fifty dollars an acre, or the whole at five 
thousand dollars. These lands, in the present map of the city, 
are embraced between the Fifth and Sixth Avenues, and extend 
from Forty-seventh to Fifty-first street. The lapse of half a 
century and the gradual growth of the city, have, of course? 
greatly increased their value. 

In September of 1817, steps were taken by the trustees for a 
thorough repair of the old edifice, which was in a very decayed 
state, and for the erection of additional buildings. Before the 
end of the year 1820, the proposed alterations and additions 
were completed. 

At the close of the year 1827, the trustees resolved upon the 
establishment of a grammar school under the superintendence 
of the faculty of the college; which resolution was carried into 
effect early the following year ; and, in 1829, a building was 
erected upon the college ground for the accommodation of schol- 
ars. The school was discontinued in 1863, 

In October of the year 1829, Dr. Hairis, the President of 
the college, died; and, on the 9th of December following, Wm. 
A. Duer, LL.D., was elected in his room. 

With a view of rendering the l)enetits of education more gen- 
erally accessible to the community, the system of instruction, at 
the commencement of the year 1830, underwent very extensive 
additions and modifications, and the time of daily attendance 
upon the professors was materially increased. The course of 
study in existence at the time of making these addiiions was 
kept entii-e, and was denominated the fidl course. 

Another course of instruction was established, denominated 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 13 

the scientific and literary course; which latter was open to 
others besides matriculated students^, and to such an extent as 
tliey miglit think proper to attend. 

On a revision of the statutes in the year 1836, both courses of 
study pursued in the college were further enlarged ; and the 
literary and scientific course in particular defined and materially 
extended. And in order that this course, as well as the scientific 
branches of the full course, might be conducted in the mo>t 
efficient manner, the trustees appropriated the sum of ten thou- 
sand dollars for the purchase of additional apparatus, as well as 
for adding to the library the requisite books of reference and 
illustration. 

The literary and scientific course, however, as distinguished 
from the full course, did not apf)ear to find favor with the pub- 
lic, and upon a revision of the statutes, in the year 1843, was 
discontinued. 

Among other important changes made on this same occision 
was the adoption of the German language and literature as part 
of the sub-graduate course, and the establishment of the Gebhard 
professorship thereof, upon the endowment made by the last 
will and testament of Frederick Gebhard, Esquire. 

In April, 1842, Wm. A. Duer, LL.D., resigned, his office of 
president, and in the following month of August, Nathaniel F, 
Moore, LL.D., was elected in his place. President Moore having 
resigned his office in 1849, Ciiarles King, LL.D., was chosen in 
his place in November of that year. 

In 1854, the subjects of the removal of the college, and the 
expediency of establishing a system of university instruction, 
were considered by the trustees, and the body of professors 
having in view such a system was greatly enlarged. 

In May, 1857, the college was removed from its old position 
on Park place to where it now stands, in Forty-ninth and 
Fiftieth streets, between Madison and Fourth avenues. 

On the 17th of May, 1858, a department of law was established, 
under the name of " The Law School of Columbia College," and 
a Faculty of law appointed. 

In 1860, by an arrangement with the Regents of the Univer- 
sity, and the sanction of the legislature, a union was effected 



14 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, by which that 
institution was adopted as the medical department of the col- 
lege. 

In 1863, the necessary measures were commenced for organiz- 
ing a department of science ; and in the following year a 
Faculty of the School of Mines was appointed. In this school 
instruction is now given in six regular courses of scientific study, 
viz., Mining Engineeiing, Civil Engineering, Metallurgy, Geo- 
logy and Palaeontology, Analytic and Applied Chemistry, and 
Architecture. 

In the year 1§64, Dr. King resigned the presi'iency of the 
college, and the Rev. Frederick A. P. Barnard, S.T.D., LL.D., 
sometime Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, was chosen 
to fill his place. 

In 1868, as a mark of respect to the late Professors Moore 
and Anthon, two prizes in Greek, of the respective value of $300 
and 1150, to be competed for by members of the Junior Class, 
by an examination upon an entire play of ^schylus, Sophocles, 
or Euripides, not read in the college course, were established by 
the Trustees. These prizes were discontinued after Commence- 
ment 1880, in consequence of the action of the Trustees making 
Greek, with many other studies of tlie Junior and Senior years, 
elective. 
■ In 1871, two Fellow-^hips in Literature and Science, open upon 
certain conditions to tlie graduating class, each of the annual 
value of 1500, to be held for three years, were instituted ; and, 
at the same time, six Scholarships in Classics and Mathematics 
were established in the Freshman and Sophomore Classes, and 
the like number in the Junior Class, in Latin, in Logic and Eng- 
lish Literature, in History and Rhetoric, in Chemistry, in Me- 
chanics, and in Physics. Subsequently this .scheme was remo- 
delled by dividing the scholarships in the Soj)homore and 
Freshman Classes, by achling in the latter class a Scholarship in 
Rhetoric, by transtVrring from the Junior Class to the Sopho- 
more the Scholarship in Chemistry, and adding in the Junior 
Class a Scholarship in Greek, and by so rearranging the whole 
as to make fourteen instead of twelve, each of the annual value 
of one hundred dollars. 



HISTORICAL, SKETCH OB' COLUMBIA COIiLEGE. 15 

In 1874, a new building for the School of Mines was erected 
at a cost of 1150,000, and fitted up with every convenience for 
the purposes of the school. 

In 1879, a new building, with a frontage of two hundi;^d feet 
on Madison Avenue, and a depth of about sixty feet, was erected 
for the School of Arts, at a cost of over ^200,000. 

In June, 1880, the Trustees provided for the establishment of 
a School of Political Science, the purpose of which is to give a 
complete general view of ail the subjects both of internal and 
external public polity from the threefold standpoint of History, 
Law, and Philosophy. The school was openel October 4, 1880, 
and is now in successful operation. 

At the same time provision was made by which instruction 
is now offered in the College to graduates of this and other col- 
leges in Greek, Latin, the Pure Mathematics, Astronomy Theo- 
retical and Practical, Methods of Research in Physics, Methods 
of Research in Chemistry, Philosophy, History, Political Eco- 
nomy, English Literature, the Anglo-Saxon Language and 
Literature, French Literature, Spanish Literature, Italian Litera- 
ture, German Literature, the Sanskrit Language and Literature, 
and the Icelandic Language and Literature. 

And also, as soon as satisfactory arrangements can be made 
for the purpose, in the Hebrew Language and Literature, Na- 
tural Theology and the Evidences of Christianity, Comparative 
Philology, Natural History in its several branches, and the Prin- 
ciples of the Common Law. 

The lecture courses of the School of Mines in certain subjects 
were likewise opened to graduate students, embracing General, 
Theoretic and Applied Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Geology, 
Palaiontology, Mineralogy, and Crystallography. 

The Trustees, at the same meeting, further provided that 
" two hours per week during the freshman year be hereafter de- 
voted to French, German, Italian, or Spanish, at the option of 
the student;" that " one hour per week during the sophomore year 
be hereafter devoted to any one of the languages above men- 
tioned, or to Anglo-Saxon, also at the option of the student;" 
that in the Junior and Senior years all the regular exercises in 
History, Political Economy, and the English Language and 



16 HISTORICAL SKETCH OP COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

Literature (to wbich in ] 882 Anglo-Saxon was added) should be 
obligatory upon all the students, and all the other studies, to 
which were added German, French, Spanish, and Italian, should 
be eleetive ; and Gnally, that students should receive, on the 
satisfactory completion of their course, " the degree of Bachelor 
of Letters, Bachelor of Science, or Bachelor of Arts, according 
to the character of the studies chiefly pursued by them." 

In 1881, a new building for the dccommodation of the School 
of Law, and for an Astronomical Observatory, was begun, and 
will, it is expected, he ready for occupancy early in 1883, 

Columbia College has, at the present time, a School of Arts, a 
School of Mines, a School of Law, a School of Political Science, 
and a School of Medicine, employing a president and one hun- 
dred and twenty professors, instructors, and assistants, and in 
all the departments sixteen hundred students. 

Columbia College, June, 1882. 



STAT UTES 



COLUMBIA COLLEGE 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE PRESIDENT. 



§ 1. It shall bo the duty of the President to take charge and 
have care of the college generally, of its buildings, of the 
grounds adjacent thereto, and of its movable property upon the 
same. To see that the course of instruction and discipline 
prescribed by the statutes is faithfully pursued, and to prevent 
and rectify all deviations from the same. 

To call meetings of the Facult}^ and to give such directions 
and perform such acts as shall, in his judgment, promote the 
interests of the colh-ge, so that they do not contravene the 
character, the statutes, the orders of the Trustees, or the 
decisions of the Board of the College. 

To visit the class-rooms from time to time, and keep himself 
informed of the manner in which the classes are taught. 

To report to the Trustees annually, at the stated meeting in 
May, and as occasion shall requiri-, the state of the college and 
the measures which may be necessary for its prosperity, and 
particularly the manner in which the several Professors and 
Tutors perform their respective duties. 

§ 2. He shall have power to grant leave of absence from the 
college for a reasonable cause, and for such length of time as he 
shall judge the occasion may require: provided that when such 
leave of absence exceeds two days it be entered upon the 
minutes of the Board of the Colleo-e. 



18 OF THE BOARD OP THE COLLEGE. 

§ 3. He shall preside at commencements and at all meetings 
of the Board, and shall sign all diploma^;. 

§ 4. He shall assemble the classes every day except Saturday 
and Sunday, at half -past nine o'clock A.M., for the purpose of 
attending prayers ; and at these daily prayers it shall be the 
duty of each of the members of the Board to be present, unless 
his presence shall be dispensed with by the President. 

§ 5. In the absence or sickness of the President, the Senior 
Professor, who shall be in the regular performance of his duties, 
shall have authorit}^ to perform the duties and exercise the 
authority of the President. 



CHAPTER II. 

OF THE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. 

§ 1. The President and the Professors engaged in the sub- 
graduate course of instruction shall constitute the Board of the 
College. Tutors shall have seats at the Board on all occasions 
when the conduct or proficiency of the students under their 
charge, in the departments in which they respectively give 
instruction, shall be in question, but on no other occasion; but 
they shall have no vote. 

§ 2. The Professors shall take precedence according to the 
date of their appointments. 

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the Professors and Tutors to 
assist the President with their counsel and co-operation. 

§ 4. The Board shall have power: 

To try offences committed by the students; 

To determine their relative standing; 

To adjudge rewards and punishments, and to make all such 
regulations of their own proceedings and for the better execu- 



OF THE BOARD OP THE COLLEGE. 19 

lion of the college system as shall not contravene the charter of 
the college, nor the statutes, nor any order of the Trustees. 

§ 5. The concurrence of the President shall be necessary to 
every act of the Board; and in case the Board shall be equally 
divided, the President shall have a casting vote in addition to 
his vote as a member of the Board. 

§ 6. In case of the absence of the President, the Senior Pro- 
fessor present shall preside at the meeting of the Board, and all 
acts of the Board thus coiistituted shall be valid, unless the 
President shall, at the next subsequent stated meeting at which 
he shall be present, express his dissent, either personally or in 
writing. 

§ 7. Upon any resolution, duly seconded, a vote shall be 
taken, if desired, by the mover. When the President dissents 
from the vote of the majority of the Board, such vote and such 
dissent shall be recorded in the minutes. 

§ 8. The Board shall meet for the purpose of administering 
the general discipline of the college once in each week, except 
in vacation. At these meetings the Professors shall report 
concerning the conduct and proficiency of the members of the 
respective classes, noting particularly th-ose who have been 
delinquent in their behavior or attendance, or deficient or negli- 
gent in their recitations, with the number of their absences. 

§ 9. The Board shall keep minutes of their proceedings, and 
shall appoint one of their own number to perform that duty. 

§ 10. In those minutes shall be noted the names of the mem- 
bers present and absent at each meeting. It shall be the duty 
of the President to cause such minutes to be laid before the 
Trustees at their meetings. 

§ 11. No member of the Board of the college, or of the 
Faculty of the School of Mines, and no other officer engaged in 
instruction shall be employed in any occupation which shall 
interfere with the thorough, efficient, and earnest performance 
of the duties of his office. 



20 OP THE COURSE OP STUDY. 

CHAPTER III. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ 1. There shall be four classes of undergraduate students in 
college, to be called the Freshman Class, the Sophomore Class, 
the Junior Class, and the Senior Class. The course of study of 
each of these classes shall occupy a year, and the entire course 
four years. 

§ 2. The Freshman Class shall be instructed in the Latin and 
Greek Languages, Grecian History, and Roman Antiquities, 
Rhetoric, and the more elementary branches of the Pure Mathe- 
matics. 

§ 3. The Sophomore Class shall be instructed in the Latin 
and Greek Languages, Roman History, and Grecian Antiquities, 
Modern History, English Literature, Chemistry, and the remain- 
ing branches of Pure Mathematics usually taught in colleges, 
except Analytical Geometry and the Differential and Integral 
Calculus. 

§ 4, The Junior Class shall be instructed in the Latin and 
Greek Languages, History of Literature, Logic, Psychology, 
Esthetics, Modern History, Analytical Geometry, Mechanics, 
and Physics. 

I 5. During the Senior year, instruction shall be given in 
Astronomy, Physics, Political Economy, Constitutional Govern- 
ment, Geology and Mineralogy, the Latin and Greek Languages 
and Literature, History of Philosophy, Psychology, Theoretic, 
Analytic or Applied Chemistry, and the Differential and Inte- 
gral Calculus. 

§ 6. In each of the four years the student shall be exercised 
in English Composition, and during the first three years in Latin 
and Greek Composition also, and in Elocution. 

§ 7. Instruction shall be given to students who may desire it, 
in the German Language and its Literature, and in such other 



' OF THE COURSE OP STUDY. 31 

modem Languages as the Board of Trustees may see fit to 
direct. 

§ 8. A plan of the course, specifying more in detail the 
studies to be pursued in each year and in each of the depart- 
ments of instruction, shall be prepared by the Board of the 
College, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees ; and 
this plan, after having been so approved, shall be published. 

§ 9. The Trustees shall assign to each Professor or other 
instructor such proportion of the time of the classes as may 
seem to them judicious ; and the Facult}^ shall prepare, in con- 
formity with this allotment, such a scheme of daily insti'uction 
as shall appear to be best adapted to promote the advancement 
of the students in their various studies. 

§ 10. The text-books to be used by the classes may be 
selected bj^ the Professors in their several departments, with 
the approval of the President, and with the reserved right of 
control by the Board of Trustees. 

§ 11. The hours of instruction at tbe college shall be the four 
in each day which immediately follow the morning exercises of 
the chapel, or so many of them, not less than three, as it may 
be found practicable to employ, and such other hours as the 
Trustees may at any lime hereafter assign ; and during those 
hours the classes severally, or their several sections, shall attend 
such instructors as shall be prescribed in the scheme of daily 
instruction, or as the Board of the College may direct, and in 
the order which may be so determined. 

§ 12. No Professor or other officer of the college shall excuse 
a class or section from assembling at the time and place ap- 
pointed for lecture or recitation, or dismiss a class or section 
atter it may have assembled before the expiration ol" the 
time allotted to the exercise, without the consent of the Presi- 
dent; nor, without such consent, shall any class or section be 
excused from the performance of any exercise required of them 
by law; but individual students may, for satisfactory reasons, 
be excused from suoh performance by the officers to whom they 
are due. 



S2 OP ADMISSION. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF ABSriSSION^. 

§ 1. As a general rule, no student shall be admitted to the 
Freshman Class, at its formation, unless he shall have attained 
the age of fifteen years ; nor shall any one be admitted 
to a more advanced standing without a corresponding increase 
of age; but this rule may be dispensed with where, in tbe 
opinion of the Faculty, there are sufficient reasons to justify its 
relaxation. 

§ 2. Every applicant for admission to the Freshman Class 
shall be examined in the English, Latin, and Greek Grammars, 
Latin Prosody and Composition, Ancient and Modern Geogra- 
phy, Arithmetic, and so much of Algebra and Geometry, and 
such authors in Greek and Latin, as the Board of the College 
may prescribe. All the requisitions for admission shall be 
annually published, and the Board of the College shall have 
power, from time to time, with the concurrence of the Trustees, 
to modify these requisitions as the exigencies of the college may 
seem to require. 

§ 3. No candidate shall be admitted to an advanced standing 
until he shall have pa^-ised a satisfactory examination upon the 
studies which have been pursued by the class for which he ap- 
plies, as well as upon those enumerated in the foregoing section; 
nor, in case he shall have been previously a member of another 
college, without a certificate from such college of his discharge 
in good standing. 

§ 4. Every student admitted to the college will be required 
immediately upon his admission, and subsequently at the begin- 
ning of each succeeding academical year, to write in the matricu- 
lation book of the college his own name, and the name, place 
of abode, and post-office of his father or guardian. 

§ 5. None but matriculated students or graduates of the col- 
lege shall be allowed to attend any of the classes without the 
special permission of the Board of Trustees. 



OP DISCIPLINE. 23 

§ 6. Tuition fees shall be paid on matriculation. 

§ 7. An honorable discharge shall always be gi-anted to any 
student in good standing, who may desire to withdraw from the 
college; but no undergraduate student shall be entitled to a dis- 
charge without the assent of his parent or guardian, given in 
writing to the President. 

§ 8. So soon as a student shall have been admitted to the 
college, he shall be presented with a copy of these statutes, and 
of any printed rules or by-laws made under them for the gov- 
ernment of the students by the Board of the College ; and ano- 
ther copy of the same shall be sent or delivered to his parent or 
ffuardian. 



CHAPTER Y. 



OF ATTENDANCE, 



§ 1. The attendance of the students upon all college exercises 
shall be obligatory, and shall be enforced by the Board of the 
College under suitable penalties. 

§ 2. Irregularities in attendance shall be reported to the Pre- 
sident, whose duty it shall be from time to time, as occasion may 
in his judgment require, report such irregularities to the parent 
or guardian of the student in fault. 



CHAPTER VI. 

OF DISCIPLINE, 



§ 1. Cases of misconduct on the part of students shall be 
referred in the first instance to the President. 

§ 2. Any member of the Faculty may summon a student to 
appear before the Board of the College, and in such case he shall 
immediately report the facts of the case to the President. 



24 OP THE PROFICIEiVCY OF STUDENTS. 

§ 3. In case any member of a clas-? under instruction disturb 
the class exercises, the Professor may require such student to 
leave the room ; and the student shall thereupon forthwith re- 
port himself to the President. 

§ 4. All sentences of the Boai-d adjudging punishments shall 
be reduced to writing before they are pronounced, and the stu- 
dents whom they affect shall be cited to hear the same read in 
the presence of the Board alone. 

§ 5. If it appear to the Board that the members of a class, or 
any number of them, have entered into a combination to avoid 
collegiate duties, or to violate any of the statutes, or any regu- 
lation of the Board, any one or more of those embraced in such 
combination may be proceeded against separately. 

§ 6. No student shall be a member of any professional school 
during his academic course. 



CHAPTER VII. 

OF THE PEOFICTEJSrCT OF STUDENTS. 

§ 1. Each Professor or other instructor shall make to the 
President a monthly i-eport of the names of such students as 
may be deficient in his department ; and shall also report daily 
those who may have been unprepared to recite, or who may have 
made absolute failure in attempting to recite. The President 
shall immediately notify each student reported as deficient, of 
the fact of such report. 

By deficiency, is here meant such a degree of imperfection in 
attainment as is likely, if not removed, to prevent the recom- 
mendation of the student for his degree, at the close of the aca- 
demic course. 

§ 2. Each Professor or other instructor, shall, at the end of 
every month after the first month of each year, make and keep a 
numerical scale of the standing of all the students under his 
instruction, according to a standard prescribed by the Board of 



OP THE PROFICIENCY OF STUDENTS. 35 

the College— the order of merit to be determined by examina- 
tion conducted in any manner which the Professor may choose. 

§ 3. Besides the monthly examinations provided for in the 
foregoing section, there shall be two public examinations of all 
the classes every year — the one to commence on the last Mon- 
<iay in January, and the other on the Monday of the third week 
preceding commencement ; which examinations shall severally 
extend to all the studies pursued during the session immediately 
preceding. Each of these examinations shall have a weight in 
the determination of scholarship equal to that of all the monthly 
examinations of the term. The Senior Class may be excused 
from attendance at College during the week preceding their 
final examination. 

§ 4, The Board of the College shall prescribe such rules as 
may be necessary to make the examinations a true and impartial 
test of the attainments of the students; and any one who shall 
be found to have willfully violated these rules, or any of them, 
shall be liable to be dropped from the roll of the College. 

§ 5. Each Professor or other instructor shall, after each serai- 
annual examination, report to the President a numerical scale of 
the standing in scholarship of all the students under his instruc- 
tion during the preceding half year, according to a standard pre- 
scribed by the Board of the College. 

The sum total of all the valuations assigned to the perform- 
ances of each student in any department, in the semi-annual 
reports, estimated as above, shall be taken to express the value 
of the student's scholarship in said department. These results 
shall only be used to ascertain the student's proficiency, and 
shall not be made public; but the President may give iv the 
parent or guardian of any student the particulars embraced in 
them, so far as that student is concerned. 

§ 6. Any student who shall be found deficient in the same 
department in more than one monthly record, may be required 
to study with a private tutor the subjects in which he is deficient, 
and to pass a rigorous examination on the same, at a time to be 



36 OP ACADEMIC HONORS. 

appointed by the Board of the College, or shall no longer be per- 
mitted to be a candidate for a degree. 

§ 7. No student who, after the close of the intermediate ex- 
amination of the Senior year, shall be found to have any defi- 
ciencies recorded against him, shall be longer a candidate for a 
degree in Arts, unless the Board of the College shall for reasons 
of weight see fit to allow him further examination on the sub- 
jects in which he is deficient. 

§ 8. Every student, whose record of scholarship shall be found 
at the close of the academic course to be fair, shall be entitled 
to be recommended to the Board of Trustees for the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. If there be any one against whom there shall 
appear a record of deficiency not subsequently made good, in 
regard to which the Board of the College are satisfied that there 
has been no culpable neglect of duty, such student may, in the 
discretion of the Board, be recommended for a degree speciali 
gratia j' and every student who may fail of such recommenda- 
tion shall be entitled to a certificate stating the duration of his 
attendance and the degree of his attainment. 

§ 9. Previously to each public examination, notice shall be 
given in two of the daily papers published in the city, of the 
time when the examination is to commence; and the Regents of 
the University, the Trustees of the College, the parents, and 
guardians of students, and such other persons as the President 
may think proper so to distinguish, shall be invited to attend. 



CHAPTER YIII. 

OP ACADEMIC HONORS. 



§ 1. At the close of the Senior year the results contained in 
all the semi-annual reports of all the four years shall be com- 
bined, by adding together the valuations assigned to the per- 
formances of each student severally in such reports ; and upon 
the basis of the totals thus ascertained, all academic honors shall 
be awarded. 



OF COMMBJSrCBMBIirTS. 37 

§ 2. The Board of the College shall determine what propor- 
tion of the maximum of values obtainable shall entitle a student 
to be included in the honor list. All those students whose totals 
amount to, or exceed, the proportion thus determined, shall be 
divided into three groups, to be styled the first, the second, and 
the third classes of honor ; and the Board shall prescribe the 
proportion which shall entitle a student to be enrolled in those 
classes severally. 

§ 3. In the allotment of parts in the literary exercises of the 
Commencement, preference shall always be given to those mem- 
bers of the graduating class whose names are included in the 
honor list, and if the number of these shall be sufficient, no 
others shall be selected. 



CHAPTER IX. 



OF C O M M E N C L: M 15 N T S , 



§ 1. There shall be an Annual Commencement on the second 
Wednesday in June, when academical degrees shall be conferred, 
and orations shall be delivered by members of the graduating 
class, who shall liave been selected after the final examination by 
the Board of the College, with reference to their standing in the 
class, and their capacity to acquit themselves creditably at the 
Commencement, viz.: 

One Greek salutatory and oration or poem ; 

One Latin oration or poem ; 

Two English orations by members of the graduating class 
of the School of Mines ; 

Two English orations by members of the graduating class 
of the College ; 

And a valedictory. 

But a poem in English, or a German oration, may be substi- 
tuted for either of the English orations. 



S8 OF COMMENCEMENTS. 

§ 2. The English orations provided for in the foregoing 
section shall be prepared under ihe following general regu- 
lation : 

Members of every Senior class shall be required, as a condition 
of graduation, to prepare and present to the President, and in 
conformity with the directions which he may prescribe, on or 
before the first day of May in the Senior year, a written essay, 
dissertation, oration, or poem suitable to be pronounced before 
a public audience ; and after the speakers shall have been 
selected for Commencement, such speakers shall be allowed to 
deliver in public, on Commencement day, the compositions 
prepared as above directed, except such as may have speeches 
assigned them in languages other than the English, or shall be 
duly appointed to deliver salutatory or valedictory addresses. 

§ 3. All such orations shall be subject to criticism by the 
President ; and the student who shall refuse or neglect to adopt 
the corrections and amendments pointed out to him, or who 
shall deliver his oration or exercise otherwise than is approved 
by the President, shall not receive his degree. 

§ 4. Any student neglecting or refusing to perform the part 
assigned to him, shall not receive his degree. 

§ 5. No alumnus of this college shall receive the degree of 
Master of Arts in less than three years after the date of his 
first diploma, unless he shall pursue a course of study for such 
degree for a term of at least one year in the Graduate Depart- 
ment of the College, in which case, at the close of such term 
of study, he may, on passing an approved examination, and on 
recommendation of the Board of the College, receive the 
degree of Master. The President may assign to one or more of 
the alumni of the college who may apply for a degree of Master 
of Arts, such orations or exercises as he may deem expedient; 
which orations or exercises shall be delivered the last in the 
order of the day, the valedictory oration excepted ; but no 
oration or exercise shall be delivered unless approved by the 
President. 



OP VACATIONS. 29 

§ 6, No person of immoral character shall be admitted to 
the honors of this college. 

§ 7. Each candidate for the degree of Bachelor or Master 
of Arts shall, before the same is conferred, discharge all his 
liabilitie:^! to the college, and also pay the fee prescribed for his 
diploma. 

§ 8. A committee of the Trustees, to be annually appointed 
for that purpose, shall, together with the President, make all 
further requisite arrangements for the annual commencements. 



CHAPTER X. 



OF VACATIOKS, 

§ 1. There shall be a vacation of all the classes, from the 
second Wednesday in June until the Saturday preceding the 
first Monday in October, on which latter day the regular course 
of study shall commence. 

§ 2. There shall be an intermission of the public lectures on 
Ash- Wednesday, Good-Friday, Easter-Monday, on public Holi- 
days established by law, and on such days in each year as may 
be recommended by the civil authority to be observed as days 
of fast or thanksgiving ; and two weeks, commencing with the 
fourth Monday ill December, unless the fourth Monday shall fall 
later than the twenty-sixth day of the month, and in that case 
commencing with the third Monday. 

§ 3. The President may, in extraordinary cases, grant an 
intermission for other days, not exceeding one day at any one 
time ; and it shall be his duty always to report the same at the 
next succeeding meeting of the Trustees, together with the 
object and reason for granting sucli intermission. 



CHAPTER XI. 



OF THE LIBRARY. 

§ 1. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to take special 
care and charge of the books and other property of the library, 



30 OP THE LIBRARY. 

in conformity with such regulations as the Board of Trustees 
or the library committee shall adopt ; and, in general, to see 
that the regulations are faithfully observed. He shall report in 
writing to the library committee, without delay, all infractions 
of the rules. 

§ 2. The Trustees and officers of the College, the students of 
the College and of the School of Mines, such graduates of the 
college residing in the city as may be authorized for the current 
year in writing by the President, and such other persons as may 
be invested with the privilege by the library committee, shall 
have access to tlie college library, and be permitted to take 
books therefrom, in conformity with such regulations as may be 
duly established by the Board of Trustees or its library com- 
mittee. 

§ 3. The Librarian shall, annually, on the third Tuesday in 
June, lay before the President and the library committee a writ- 
ten statement, in duplicate, of the condition of the library, to- 
gether with the names of those who on that day retain books or 
other property of the library, as also the names of those who are 
in any way in default as regards the library. 

§ 4. No officer or student of the college, or other persons, 
shall take from the library any book or periodical, unless in 
conformity with the regulations, and in the presence of the 
Librarian or his assistant duly appointed, who shall at tlie time 
enter the title of such book or periodical, the name ot the 
person taking it, and the date, in a register provided for that 
purpose. 

§ 5. No books shall be taken from the library during the 
interval between the third Tuesday of June and the end of the 
summer vacation, except such as may be taken by members of 
the Board of the College, in conformity with the regulations. 



OP FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. ' 31 

CHAPTER XII. 

OF FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. 

§ 1. The Alumni Association of Columbia College shall be 
entitled to have always, in the undergraduate department, four 
students, to be instructed free of charge. 

§ 2. The Society for promoting religion and learning in the 
State of New York shall be entitled to have always, in the 
undergraduate department, two students in each class, to be 
instructed free of charge. 

§ 3. The members of the Board of the College, and the Pro- 
fessors of tlie School of Mines and of the Law School, shall be 
entitled to have their sons educated, free of charge, in the 
undergraduate department, in the School of Mines, or in the 
Law School. 

§ 4. The above privileges are subject to the regulations of 
the Trustees in regard to free tuition. 

§ 5. All free scholarships, except those granted under this 
statute and those acquired under the present or former statutes 
of this college, by the endowment of such scholarships, are 
abolished. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

OF FOUNDATIONS. 



§ 1. Any person or persons who may found a scholarship, by 
the payment of not less than two thousand dollars to the Treas- 
urer of the college, shall be entitled to have always one student 
educated in the college free of all charges for tuition. This 
right may be transferred to others. The scholarship shall bear 
such name as the founder or founders may designate. 

§ 2. Any person or persons who shall endow a professorship 
in the classics, in political, mathematical, or physical science, or in 



da OF FOUNDATIONS. 

the literature of any of the ancient or modern languages, hj the 
payment of not less than one hundred thousand dollars to the 
Treasurer of the college, shall forever have the right of nomi- 
nating a professor for the same, subjeca to the approbation of 
the Board oL" Trustees, who shall hold his office by the same 
tenure as the other professors of the college — the nomination 
to be made by the person or persons who shall make endowment, 
or such person or persons as he or they may designate. The 
proceeds of the endowment shall be appropriated to the salary 
of the Professor. 



STATUTE 



FOR ORGANIZING 



THE SCHOOL OF MINES 

(As Amended February 5, and June 4, 1877.) 



CHAPTER I, 

OP THE PRESIDENT 



The President of the College is the President of the Faculty 
of the School of Mines. He shall preside at the meetings, when 
present, and shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER n. 

OP THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF MINES. 

§ 1. The Faculty of the School of Mines shall consist of the 
President, and the Professors engaged in the suhgraduate course 
of instruction. 

§ 2. The instruction shall be conducted by the above Profess- 
ors, and such assistants and lecturers as have been or may here- 
after be appointed under the authority of the Trustees. 

§ 3. The Faculty shall have power to make such regulations 
for the management of the School of Mines as shall not con- 
travene the charter of the college, nor the statutes, nor any order 
of the Trustees. 

§ 4. The concurrence of the President shall be necessary to 
every act of the Faculty. 

LofC. 



34 OF ADMissioisr. 

§ 5. The Faculty shall be authorized to elect a Dean from 
among their own number, who shall be charged with such duties 
as the President may delegate to him. 

§ 6. In case of the absence of the President, the senior Pro- 
fessor present shall preside at the meetings of the Board ; but 
no act of the Board thus constituted shall be valid until approved 
by the President. 

§ 7. The Board shall hold stated meetings ai least once a 
month during term-time, and shall keep a book of minutes of 
its proceedings, to be submitted by the President to the Trustees 
at their meetings. 



CHAPTER III. 

OP ADMISSION. 

§ 1. Candidates for admission to the First Class, at its forma- 
tion, must be of the age of seventeen years, complete ; and, for 
admission to advanced standing, there will be required a corre- 
sponding increase of age ; but this rule may be dispensed with 
in cases of unusual proficiency on the part of applicants, or for 
other reasons of weight. 

§ 2. The requisitions for admission shall be prescribed by the 
Faculty of the School, subject to the approval of the Board of 
Trustees ; and all the requisitions for admission shall be annually 
published. 

§ 3. No candidate shall be admitted to advanced standing 
until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination upon the 
studies which have been pursued by the class for which he ap- 
plies ; but graduates and students of colleges and schools of 
science, who shall have completed so much of the course of study 
as shall be equivalent to the requirements for admission to the 
School, may be admitted at the beginning of the second year, 
or earlier, without examination, on presenting diplomas or cer- 
tificates of good standing and honorable dismissal, satisfactory 
to the examining officers. 



OP THE COURSE OF STUDY. 35 

§ 4. None but students regularly entered as members of the 
School shall be allowed to attend the classes without permission 
of the Board of Trustees. 

§ 5. Tuition fees must be paid at entrance, and subsequently 
at the beginning of each session, before the student takes his 
place in his class, unless the time of payment be extended by 
the President and Treasurer. 



CHAPTER IV. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ 1. There shall be four classes of Students in the School, to 
be distinguished as the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Classes. 
The course of study of each of these classes shall occupy a 
year ; and the entire course four years. 

§ 2. During the First year instruction shall be given in Geo- 
metry, Algebra, Trigonometry, and Mensuration ; in Elementary 
Physics ; in Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic ; in Botany, in 
French, in German, and in Drawing. 

§ 3. Instruction in the Second year shall comprise Analytical 
Geometry, Calculus, Descriptive Geometry, Shades, Shadows, 
and Perspet^tive; Surveying, Theoretical Chemistry, Qualitative 
Analysis, Stoichiometry; Determinative Mineralogy, Qualitative 
Blow-pipe Analysis, and Crystallography; Zoology, French and 
German. 

§ 4. In the Third year instruction shall be given in Mechanics, 
Quantitative Analysis, Mineralogy, and Quantitative Blow-pipe 
Analysis; in the principles of Engineermg, and their applica- 
tions to works of Civil and Mining Engineering ; in Mathe- 
matical Physics; in Applied Chemistry; in Metallurgy, Geology, 
and Surveying. 

§ 5. In the Fourih year instruction shall embrace the Princi- 
ples, Construction, and Management of Machines and Engines ; 



36 OF THE COURSE OP STUDY. 

Mining and Civil Engineering; Applied Chemistry; Economic 
Geology; Geodesy and Surveying; Practical Mining; Ore Dress- 
ing and Assaying. 

§ 6. The subjects of study enumerated in the foregoing sec- 
tions shall be so grouped as to form five independent courses 
of instruction, viz., a Course in Civil Engineering, a Course in 
Mining Engineering, a Coarse in Metallurgy, a Course in Geo- 
logy and Pala3ontology, and a Course in Analytical and Applied 
Chemistry. During the first session of the Fir^t Year, the in- 
struction given to all the students of that year shall be identi- 
cally the same; at the beginning of the second session, each 
student shall elect which of the five courses above mentioned he 
intends to pursue, and after having made his election, he shall 
not be permitted to abandon the course chosen in order to take 
up another, or to become a special student, without the consent 
of the Faculty, to be given only for reasons of weight. 

§ 7. ]n all studies, which are common to two or more courses 
of instruction, the students electing those courses may be in- 
structed in common; but no student shall be a candidate for two 
different degrees at the same time. 

§ 8. In each of the four years students shall be required to 
practise in Drawing and in Chemical Analysis as the exigencies 
of the course they are pursuing may require, and in the Second, 
Third, and Fourth years they shall be similarly practised in sur- 
veying in the open air, when the weather and their other scho- 
lastic engagements will allow. During the vacation following 
the close of the Third year, students of Mining Engineering 
shall engage in actual work in mines, under the superintendence 
of the Adjunct Professor of Surveying and Practical Mining. 

§ 9. A plan of the several courses, specifying more in detail 
the studies to be pursued in each year, and in each department 
of instruction, shall be established by resolution of the Board 
of Trustees, and published. 



OP DisciPiiiisrE. 37 



CHAPTER V. 

OF THE PROPICIENCT OF STUDENTS AND OF GRADUATION. 

§ 1. Every professor shall make and keep a numerical scale of 
standing in scholarship of all the students under his instruction, 
according to a standard prescribed by the Faculty, the order of 
merit to be determined by examination. 

§ 2. The Faculty may prescribe such rules as may be neces- 
sary to make the examinations a true and impartial test of the 
attainments of the students; and any one who shall be found to 
have wilfully violated these rules, or any part of them, shall be 
liable to be dropped from the roll of the school. 

§ 3. Any student who, upon examination in any subject, shall 
have been pronounced deficient, shall be required to study the 
same subjects again, and to pass, at a time appointed by the 
Faculty, a satisfactory examination on the same, failing in 
which, he shall cease to be a candidate for a degree. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OF DISCIPLINE 



§ 1. In case of misconduct in a student, unless the offence be 
so flagrant as in the judgment of the Professor to require the 
interference of the Faculty, the Professor shall admonish the 
offender, either privately or publicly, and, upon failure of suc- 
cess, may, in his discretion, bring the subject before the Faculty 
of the School. 

§ 2. The punishment of dismission shall be inflicted only by 
an act of the Faculty. 

§ 3. A student whom it may be necessary to bring before the 
Faculty shall have due notice of the time and place of their 
meeting, and shall be allowed to defend himself. 



38 OF COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. 

§ 4. If injury be done to the buildinirs or other property of 
the college, or any property used by the School of Mines, by 
any student, the Faculty shall have power to impose a pecuniary 
mulct to the extent of the damage ; and, unless such mulct be 
paid, the offending student shall be punished in the discretion of 
the Faculty. 



CHAPTER VII. 

OF FEES FOE TUITION. 



The fees of the school shall be paid into the treasury of the 
college. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



OF COMMENCEMENT AND DEGEEES. 

§ 1. At the annual Commencement, established by Chapter 
IX., § 1, of the Statutes of the College, degrees shall be con- 
ferred on the students of the School who may be entitled to 
receive them, and such students shall be required to attend at 
the Commencement for that purpose. 

§ 2. Among the public exercises of the Commencement 
there shall be two orations by members of the graduating class 
of the School, who shall have been selected by the Faculty of 
the School for their merit and their capacity to iacquit them- 
selves creditably in the performance of such exercise. 

§ 3. The orations provided for in the foregoing section shall 
be prepared in accoi'dance with such regulations as may be pre- 
scribed by the President, and shall be subject to criticism by 
that officer, and any student who fails to conform to such regu- 
lations, or shall refuse or neglect to adopt the corrections and 
amendments pointed out to him, or who shall deliver his oration 
otherwise than is approved by the President, shall not receive 
his degree. 



STATUTE 



FOB ORGANIZING 



THE SCHOOL OF LAW, 

(As Amenoed February 7, 1876, and April 15, 1878.) 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE TRESIDENT. 



The President of the college is the President of the Faculty 
of Law. He shall presi<le at its meetings, when present, and 
siiall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER II. 



OF THE WARDEN. 



§ 1. It shall be the duty of the Warden to take charge and 
care of the building or buildings occupied by the Law School, 
and of the property therein contained; to see that the course 
of instruction prescribed is faithfully pursued, and due discipline 
observed; to keep himself informed of the manner and efficiency 
of instruction in the several departments; to call special meet- 
ings of the Faculty, and to give such directions and perform 
such acts as shall in his Judgment promote the interests of the 
school, so that they do not contravene the chai'ter, the statutes, 
the orders of the Trustees, or the decisions of the Faculty of the 
school; to give to the President of the College or to the Com- 
mittee on the School of Law, from time to time, any informa- 
tion which he or they may require, as to the condition or admin- 
istration of the school, or as to the manner or efficiency of the 



40 OF THE FACULTY. 

instruction, or the performance of the duty of any of its officers; 
to report to the Trustees annually, at the stated meeting in Oc- 
tober, and as occasion shall require, the state of the school, and 
the measures which may be necessary for its prosperity, and 
par1)icularly the manner in which the several professors perform 
tbeir respective duties. 

§ 2. He shall have power to grant leave of absence to stu- 
dents for such length of time as he shall judge the occasion may 
require. 

§ 3. He shall preside, in the absence of the President of the 
College, at Commencements of the Law School, and shall sign 
all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER HI. 



OF THE PACUIiTY. 



§ 1, The Faculty shall be constituted of the President of 
the College, the Warden, and the Professors of the school. 
They shall meet statedly once a month during the annual term. 
They shall keep a book of minutes of their proceedings, to be 
submitted to the Trustees of the College at their regular meet- 
ings, and to the Committee on the School of Law, when called 
for by them. The President, or, in his absence, the Warden, 
or, in the absence of both, the Senior Professor present shall 
preside. 

§ 2. The Faculty shall have power to act upon all cases 
of discipline in their discretion, with power to admonish, 
suspend, dismiss, or expel students, if such cases are brought 
before them by the Warden; to admit students who are grad- 
uates of some college upon certificates of the college authori- 
ties, and those who are not graduates upon the report of the 
examiners. 

§ 3. No act of the Faculty shall be valid, if disapproved by 
the President, if present, or by the Warden, such disapproval 
to be noted on its minutes. 



OP ADMISSIONS. 41 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF ADMISSIO K S. 



§ 1. All graduates of literary colleges will be admitted with- 
out examination. Other candidates for admission must be at 
least eighteen years of age, and have received a good aca- 
demic education, including such a knowledge of the Latin 
language as is required for admission to the Freshman class of 
this college. 

§ 2. Candidates for admission, not graduates of literary 
colleges, are required to pass an examination in the outlines of 
Greek and Roman history, history of England and the United 
States (of North America); English Grammar, Rhetoric, and 
the principles of Composition; in Caesar's Gallic War (entire), 
six Books of Virgil's ^neid, and six Orations of Cicero, or 
other Latin authors deemed by the examiners to be equivalent 
to the above. 

§ 3. Such examination shall be conducted by three examin- 
ers. Alumni of the college, to be appointed by the Committee 
on the School of Law. 

§ 4. The examinations shall begin in the Law School build- 
ing on the Saturday next preceding the first Wednesday in 
October, and shall be oral and in writing. 

§ 5. Students who are not candidates for a degree, may be 
admitted to the Law School without a preliminary examination 
in Latin, provided that none such shall be admitted to the in- 
convenience or overcrowding of the lecture-rooms. 

§ 6. Students being candidates for a degree, who are well 
grounded in the principles of the Latin language, but who have 
not read the entire amount required by Section 2 of this Chap- 
ter, may be admitted to the Law School, at the discretion of 
the Faculty, conditionally, as candidates for a degree. If such 
deficiency is not made up in one year, they may be allowed to 
join the next Junior Class upon new conditions; but they shall 
not be allowed to proceed with the Senior Class. 



42 OF DSaREES. 



CHAPTER V. 

OF THE COURSE OF STUDT. 

§ 1. There shall be two classes of undergraduate students in 
the Law School, to be called respectively the Senior and Junior 
Class. The course of study of each of these classes shall occupy 
a year, and the entire course two years. 

§ 2. The annual term in the Law School shall commence on 
the first Wednesday in October in each and every year, and 
shall close on that Wednesday in May which is nearest to the 
fifteentb day of the month. This annual term shall constitute 
the collegiate year. 

§ 3. A plan of the course, specifying in detail the studies tD 
be pursued in each year and in each of the departments of 
instruction, shall from time to time be prepared by the Faculty 
of the Law School, subject to the approval of the Committee on 
the School of Law: and this plan, after having been so approved, 
shall be published. 

§ 4. The Warden, in consultation with the Faculty, shall 
have power to arrange the hours for lectures and recitations, as 
well as to select the text-books for the use of the students. 

§ 5. Moot Courts shall be held under the direction of tbe 
Faculty, at such times as they may deem proper. The mode of 
proceeding and the assignment of students to take part in the 
discussion shall be under the dii'ection of the Warden, 



CHAPTER VL 

OP DEGREES. 



§ 1. Every student who shall pass an approved examination 
upon the required studies of the course shall be entitled to be 
recommended to the Board of Trustees for the Degree of Bach- 



OF DEGREES. 43 

elor of Laws. Should the student not have attained the age of 
twenty-one years at the lime of gi-aduating, the delivery of the 
diploma shall be deferred until he shall have attained that 
age. 

§ 2. A student who shall not have pursued the full course of 
study shall be entitled to a certificate stating the duration of 
his attendance and the degree of his attainment, to be signed 
by the Warden. 



RESOLUTIONS 



PROVIDING FOB A 



SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 

(Passed June 4, 1860.) 



Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of Columbia College 
hereby adopts the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the 
City of IS'ew York as the Medical School of Columbia College. 

Resolved, That the diplomas of the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine shall be conferred by the President of the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, sitting with the President of Colum- 
bia College, and shall be signed by the Presidents of the 
respective colleges, and such others of the Faculty as may be 
designated, from time to time, by by-laws or resolutions of the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

Resolved, That this connection shall be continued during the 
pleasure of the respective Boards of Trustees of the two col- 
leges, and may be determined by a vote of either Board, and 
notice thereof given to the other Board of Trustees. 



RESOLUTIONS 



PROVIDING FOR A 



SCHOOL OF POLITIC/L SCIENCE, 



(Passed June 7, 1880.) 



Resolved, That there be established, to go into operation at 
the opening of the academic year next ensuing, a school de- 
signed to prepare youag men for the duties of public life, to be 
entitled a School of Political Science, having a definitely pre- 
scribed curriculum of study extending over a period of three 
years, and embracing the History of Philosophy; the History 
of the Literatitre of the Political Sciences; the General Consti- 
tutional History of Europe; the Special Constitutional History 
of England and the United States; the Roman Law, and the 
jurisprudence of existing codes derived therefrom; the Com- 
parative Constitutional Law of European States and of the 
United States; the Comparative Constitutional Law of the dif- 
ferent Slates of the American Union; the History of Diplomacy; 
International Law; Systems of Administration, State and Na- 
tional, of the United States; Comparison of American and 
European Systems of Administration; Political Economy, and 
Statistics. 

Resolved, That the qualification required of the candidate for 
admission to this school shall be that he shall have successfully 
pursued a course of undergraduate study in this college, or in 
some other maintaining an equivalent curriculum, to the close 
of the Junior year. 

Resolved, That students of the school who shall satisfactorily 
complete the studies of the first year shall be entitled, on ex- 
amination and the recommendation of the Facultj^, to receive 
the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy; and those who complete 
the entire course of three years shall, on similar examination 
and recommendation, be entitled to receive the degree of Doctor 
of Philosophy. 



INDEX 



Page. 
Absences to be reported 23 

Academic honors, how determined 26 

Admission, age of 23 

" requisitions for. ... . . 22 

" School of Law 41 

School of Mines 34 

Attendance 23 

Board of Trustees 5 

Board of the College, how constituted 18 

" " " powers of 19 

" " " meetings of 19 

" '' " are to keep minutes 19 

Buildings to be under President's charge 17 

Classes of undergraduates, number and style 20 

" " studies of 20 

" in School of Mines 35 

" in School of Law 42 

College of Physicians and Surgeons adopted as School of Medicine 47 

Combinations, unlawful, how to be treated 23 

Commencement, time of . . . . 27, 38 

' ' allotments of parts at 27, 38 

" exercises at .27, 38 

" Committee on. 29 

Course of study, outline of 20 

" " detailed plan to be published 26 

" " in School of Mines 35 

" " in School of Law 42» 

Dean of the School of Mines 34 

Deficiency, what is understood by 24 

Deficient students, how to be treated 25, 37 



11 INDEX. 

Page. 
Degree of Master of Arts, how soon conferred 28 

" " " conditions required for 28 

Degrees, when conferred 25, 38, 42 

' ' may be forfeited, how 28, 38 

" candidates for, must pay all dues 29 

" in School of Mines 38 

" in School of Law 42 

Determination of standing 26, 37 

Diplomas must be paid for before delivery 29 

Discharges granted only with consent of parent or guardian 23 

Discipline in the College 23 

in the School of Mines 37 

" in the School of Law 40 

Dues to College to be paid before Degree is conferred 29 

Examinations, number of 25 

" how to be conducted! 25 

" to be advertised 26 

" invitations to be issued for 26 

in School of Mines 37 

"■ in School of Law 41, 42 

Exercises may be suspended by the President 29 

Faculty of the College, how constituted 18 

" " " their powers and duties 18, 19 

" of the School of Mines, how constituted 33 

" " " " powers of 33 

" " " " meetings of 34 

" " " " are to keep minutes 34 

" of the School of Law 40 

" " " " powers of 40 

" " " " meetings of 40 

" " " " are to keep minutes 40 

Failures at Recitation, to be reported 24 

Fees of undergraduates 23 

" of students in School of Mines 35, 38 

Foundations for scholarships 31 

" for professorships 31 

Graduates of the College may attend classes 22 



INDEX. iii 

Page. 
Grounds to be under President's supervision 17 

Historical sketch of Columbia College 7 

Holidays ... ... 29 

Honors, Academic, how to be determined 27 

Hours of instruction 21 

Laws, copies of, to be delivered to students 23 

" " to be sent to parents 23 

Law School. See School of Law. 

Librarian, his duties 29 

" shall report, annually = 30 

Library, who shall have use of . . 80 

" shall be closed during vacation. , 30 

Masters of Arts, orations by. at Commencement .28 

Matriculation 22 

Medicine, School of. See School of Medicine. 

Mining School. See School of Mines. 

Physicians and Surgeons, College of, adopted as School of 

Medicine 40 

President of the College, his powers and duties. . . 17 

" shall have casting vote in the Board 19 

" his concurrence necessary to acts of Faculties 19 

" may suspend exercises 29 

Professors, reports to be made by 23, 24, 25 

" to have no occupation interfering with College duties 19 

" time of, with the classes 21 

" shall not excuse classes from attendance 21 

Professorships, how they may be founded 31 

Punishments, sentences to be in writing ...... 24 

Record to be kept of failures, want of preparation 24 

Reports, of President, to Trustees 17 

" " to parents- 23 

of Professors .23, 24, '25 

" of Librarian 30 

Rolls of merit, how to be constructed 26 

Scholarships, free 31 

" " may be founded, how. 31 

School of Law 39 



IV 



INDEX. 



Page. 
School of Law, President of 39 . 

" Warden of 39 

" Faculty of 40 

'■ discipline of. ... ; . . . . 40 

" admission to 41 

School of Mines 33 

" President of 33 

" Dean of 34 

Faculty of 33 

" admission to 34 

' ' instruction in . 35 

" . discipline of 37 

fees of 35, 38 

School of Medicine 44 

School of Political Science 48 

Sketch, historical, of Columbia College 7 

Statutes of the College 17 

School of Mines 33 

" " School of Law ; 39 

Students, must matriculate before attending classes 32, 34 

" deficient, or partly deficient, how to be treated 24, 37 

Suspension of exercises 29 

Text Books, how to be selected 21 

Trustees of the College, names of . c 5 

Tuition fees, of undergradua,tes, when payable 23 

" of students in School of Mines 35, 38 

Vacations 29, 42 

Want of preparation, to be recorded 24 

Warden of School of Law, his duties 39 

" " " is to report 40 

" " " his concurrence necessary to acts of 

Faculty 40 



